Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

³⁵ But someone will say, How do the dead arise? With what bodies do they come in? ³⁶ Foolish one, that which you sow is not quickened to life unless it dies. ³⁷ And what do you sow? You sow not the body that will be, but bare seed (I mean, of wheat or something else), ³⁸ and God gives it a body at his pleasure – to every seed a particular body.

³⁹ All flesh is not of the same kind, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another kind of flesh of animals, another kind of flesh of fishes, and another of birds. ⁴⁰ There are celestial bodies and there are terrestrial bodies. But the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. ⁴¹ There is one kind of glory of the sun and another glory of the moon – and another glory of the stars, for one star differs from another in glory.

⁴² So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, and rises again in incorruption. ⁴³ It is sown in dishonour, and rises in honour. It is sown in weakness, and rises in power. ⁴⁴ It is sown a natural body, and rises a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body; as it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul, and the last Adam was made a life-giving spirit. ⁴⁶ However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and then that which is spiritual.

⁴⁷ The first man is of the earth, earthy. And the second man is the Lord from heaven. ⁴⁸ As is the earthy, such are those who are earthy. And as is the heavenly, such are those who are heavenly. ⁴⁹ And as we have borne the image of the earthy, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly.